Anthropometric-hormonal correlation patterns in fertile and post-menopausal women from Austria
- 1 January 1993
- journal article
- Published by Taylor & Francis Ltd in Annals of Human Biology
- Vol. 20 (1), 47-65
- https://doi.org/10.1080/03014469300002492
Abstract
Correlations between sex-hormone levels and body dimensions were investigated in a group of women from Vienna. Since sex-hormone concentrations in women are subject to dramatic changes with increasing age, both 124 fertile and 142 postmenopausal women were examined. Twenty-nine anthropometric traits were correlated with oestradiol, the gonadotrophins luteinizing hormone (LH) and follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH), the gestagens progesterone, 17-hydroxyprogesterone and prolactin, and the androgens testosterone, androstenedione and DHEA-S, as well as with the transport protein, sex-hormone binding globulin. It was also found that oestradiol concentration was related to levels of gonadotrophins, prolactin, progesterone and androgens and was equally correlated with metric traits. Statistically significant correlations could be observed between all sex-hormone concentrations and the 29 anthropometric traits. The most striking result is the change in direction of correlations between metric traits and oestrogen, gonadotrophin, prolactin and gestagen levels between both proband groups, which is probably due to changes in sex-hormone concentrations in women after menopause. The direction of correlations with androgens remained the same. In post-menopausal women the great impact of fat tissue for sufficient synthesis of oestrogen is shown by a positive correlation between oestradiol and circumference measures.Keywords
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